was introduced in the medical literature in 2000. The word is from the Greek tokos, meaning childbirth and phobos, meaning fear. It is also known as "maleusiophobia" (though this is certainly a variant of "maieusiophobia", from the Greek "maieusis", literally meaning "delivery of a woman in childbirth" but referring generally to midwifery), "parturiphobia" (from Latin parturire, meaning "to be pregnant"), and "lockiophobia". See also List of phobias Blood-injection-injury type phobia Psychiatric disorders of childbirth Anxiety disorder References External links Tokophobia: scared of giving birth? Tokophobia: what it’s like to have a phobia of pregnancy and childbirth Pathology of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium Phobias